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(from Greek : ;>^i/aco ; Welsh : aioi \ Irish : aiaoi), chew, digest. 

 The herb makes a good salad, and is used medicinally. Irish : 

 g7'io/oigin, — grid, to slap, to strike. 



Peucedanum ostruthium — Great masterwort. Gaelic : mor 

 fhliodh (Armstrong), the large excrescence, or the large chick- 

 weed. 



P. officinale — Hog-fennel or sow-fennel. Gaelic : fincal sraide 

 (Shaw), — sraide, a lane, a walk, a street. This plant is not found 

 m Scotland, but was cultivated in olden times for the stimulating 

 qualities attributed to the root. 



Anethum graveolens — Strong - scented or common dill. 

 Gaelic and Irish: dile (M 'Donald) (Latin: diligd), — dile, a 

 word in Gaelic meanmg love, affection, friendship. The whole 

 plant is very aromatic, and is used for medicinal preparations. 



Slum (from siu^ " water in Celtic," Loudon), perhaps from 

 sjo (Gothic), water, lake, sea. 



S. sisarum — Skirrets. Gaelic : criimagan (Shaw), from crom, 

 bent, crooked, from the form of its tubers. The tubers were 

 boiled and served up with butter, and were declared by Worl- 

 ridge, in 1682, to be "the sweetest, whitest, and most pleasant 

 of roots ; " formerly cultivated in Scotland under the name of 

 ^'crummock," a corruption of the Gaelic name. 



S. angustifolium — Water-parsnip. Gaelic : folachdaii (Arm- 

 strong), from folachd, luxuriant vegetation ; an, water. Irish : 

 cosadh duhhadh, the great water-parsnip (O'Reilly), {cos, a foot, 

 stalk, shaft, and dubh, great, prodigious). 



Pastinaca sativa — Parsnip. Gaelic : i}ieaca?i-an-righ, the 

 king's root, royal root. Ctcrran geal (from cur, to sow, geal, 

 white). Irish : cuiridifi ban, the same meaning {ciiirini, I plant 

 or sow). Welsh : moroji gwynion, field- carrot. 



-ffigopodium podagraria — Goat-, gout-, or bishop - weed. 

 Gaelic : lus an eashuig, — eashuig, a bishop. A name also given 

 to Chrysanthemiwi leucanthenium, but with a different signifi- 

 cation. 



Heracleum sphondylium — Cow-parsnip. Gaelic : odharan, 

 from odhar (Greek : iii-)(jio^ ; English : ochre), pale, dun, yellow- 

 ish, in reference to the colour of the flower. Meacan-a-chruidh, 

 the cow's plant. The plant is wholesome and nourishing for 

 cattle. Gunnachan sputachain, squirt -guns. Children's name 

 for the plant, because they make squirt-guns from its hollow 

 stems. 



Daucus carota — Carrot. Gaelic : cjirran (from cur, to sow), 



